chqs-git / code-plus

A plugin for the Lite XL that offers improvements such as highlighted comments and autocomplete for brackets, quotes and more.

Code+

A quality of life plugin for the Lite XL text editor. Offering improvements such as highlighted comments and autocomplete for brackets, quotes and more.

Basic usage

Highlight comments with special properties using the @Todo(...) and @Fixme(...) keywords for an enhanced coding experience. Streamline coding by auto-completing brackets, parentheses, quotation marks reducing manual effort and improving the writing code experience.

Demonstration

Instalation

Navigate to the data/plugins folder and run the following command:

git clone https://github.com/chqs-git/code-plus.git

Alternatively you can download and rename the init.lua file to code+.lua and drop it into the data/plugins folder.

Configuration

Using the settings plugin for Lite Xl you can easily configure your experience by changing the highlight colors for the @todo and @fixme operators.

If you wish to add more highlights you can simply update the following code:

function DocView:draw_line_text(line, x, y)
    local lh = draw_line_text(self, line, x, y)

    if config.plugins.code_plus.enabled then
      highlight_comment(self, line, x, y, "@todo", config.plugins.code_plus.todo)
      highlight_comment(self, line, x, y, "@fixme", config.plugins.code_plus.fixme)
      -- add a new highlight! the color is just an example
      highlight_comment(self, line, x, y, "@new_tag", {common.color "#ffffff"})
    end
    return lh
end

To extend the already auto-completing utilities to other keywords, you can simply use the complete function. Create a new command for the new auto-complete utility (required) and map a key to the command.